Jesus

Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, is the Son of God who became incarnate, died for the sins of humanity, and rose from the dead, providing salvation for all who believe in Him.

The name Jesus means “savior; deliverer”

MaleTribe of JudahNew Testament eraOld & New Testaments27 books2,748 verses

Summary

A man from the tribe of Judah living at the time of the New Testament, first mentioned at Matthew 1:1; referred to as Jesus (Ἰησοῦς), Christ (Χριστός), Christian (Χριστιανός), Immanuel (עִמָּנוּאֵל), or Immanuel (Ἐμμανουήλ); son of Joseph and Mary; a brother of James, Joses, Simon and Jude.

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Glossary entries

Christ Messiah Lord Immanuel Christian Emmanuel

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Father

Joseph

Mother

Mary

Siblings

James Joses Jude Simon

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Mentions

2,748 verses

Includes 1,588 verses that refer to Jesus without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

  1. Luke 24:45Referred to, not named
    Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
  2. Luke 24:46Χριστός · Christ
    And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
  3. Luke 24:47Referred to, not named
    …and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
  4. Luke 24:49Referred to, not named
    And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
  5. Luke 24:50Referred to, not named
    When Jesus had led them out as far as Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them.
  6. Luke 24:51Referred to, not named
    While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.
  7. Luke 24:52Referred to, not named
    And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
  8. John 1:17Χριστός · Christ; Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  9. John 1:19Referred to, not named
    And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”
  10. John 1:20Χριστός · Christ
    He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”
  11. John 1:25Χριστός · Christ
    …asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
  12. John 1:29Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  13. John 1:30Referred to, not named
    This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’
  14. John 1:31Referred to, not named
    I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
  15. John 1:32Referred to, not named
    Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.
  16. John 1:33Referred to, not named
    I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
  17. John 1:34Referred to, not named
    I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”
  18. John 1:36Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
  19. John 1:37Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    And when the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
  20. John 1:38Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked. They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”
  21. John 1:39Referred to, not named
    “Come and see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour.
  22. John 1:40Referred to, not named
    Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus.
  23. John 1:41Χριστός · Christ
    He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
  24. John 1:42Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
  25. John 1:43Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, “Follow Me.”
  26. John 1:45Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
  27. John 1:47Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
  28. John 1:48Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    “How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”
  29. John 1:49Referred to, not named
    “Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
  30. John 1:50Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”
  31. John 1:51Referred to, not named
    Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
  32. John 2:1Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
  33. John 2:2Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    …and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
  34. John 2:3Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”
  35. John 2:4Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    “Woman, what is that to you and to Me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
  36. John 2:5Referred to, not named
    His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
  37. John 2:7Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim.
  38. John 2:8Referred to, not named
    “Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so,
  39. John 2:11Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
  40. John 2:12Referred to, not named
    After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
  41. John 2:13Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  42. John 2:14Referred to, not named
    In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
  43. John 2:15Referred to, not named
    So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
  44. John 2:16Referred to, not named
    To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
  45. John 2:17Referred to, not named
    His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
  46. John 2:18Referred to, not named
    On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
  47. John 2:19Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
  48. John 2:20Referred to, not named
    “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
  49. John 2:21Referred to, not named
    But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
  50. John 2:22Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
  51. John 2:23Referred to, not named
    While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
  52. John 2:24Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.
  53. John 2:25Referred to, not named
    He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
  54. John 3:2Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
  55. John 3:3Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
  56. John 3:4Referred to, not named
    “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
  57. John 3:5Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
  58. John 3:7Referred to, not named
    Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’
  59. John 3:9Referred to, not named
    “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
  60. John 3:10Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
  61. John 3:11Referred to, not named
    Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
  62. John 3:12Referred to, not named
    If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
  63. John 3:22Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
  64. John 3:26Referred to, not named
    So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
  65. John 3:28Χριστός · Christ
    You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but am sent ahead of Him.’
  66. John 3:30Referred to, not named
    He must increase; I must decrease.
  67. John 4:1Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John
  68. John 4:2Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    …(although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples),
  69. John 4:3Referred to, not named
    He left Judea and returned to Galilee.
  70. John 4:4Referred to, not named
    Now He had to pass through Samaria.
  71. John 4:5Referred to, not named
    So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
  72. John 4:6Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
  73. John 4:7Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
  74. John 4:8Referred to, not named
    (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
  75. John 4:9Referred to, not named
    “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
  76. John 4:10Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
  77. John 4:11Referred to, not named
    “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
  78. John 4:13Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
  79. John 4:14Referred to, not named
    But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
  80. John 4:15Referred to, not named
    The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
  81. John 4:16Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
  82. John 4:17Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    “I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.
  83. John 4:19Referred to, not named
    “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.
  84. John 4:21Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
  85. John 4:22Referred to, not named
    You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
  86. John 4:25Χριστός · Christ
    The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
  87. John 4:26Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”
  88. John 4:27Referred to, not named
    Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
  89. John 4:29Χριστός · Christ
    “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
  90. John 4:30Referred to, not named
    So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.
  91. John 4:31Referred to, not named
    Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
  92. John 4:32Referred to, not named
    But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
  93. John 4:33Referred to, not named
    So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”
  94. John 4:34Ἰησοῦς · Jesus; Ἰησοῦς · Lord
    Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
  95. John 4:35Referred to, not named
    Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
  96. John 4:38Referred to, not named
    I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
  97. John 4:39Referred to, not named
    Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
  98. John 4:40Referred to, not named
    So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
  99. John 4:41Referred to, not named
    And many more believed because of His message.
  100. John 4:42Referred to, not named
    They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”